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Handmade Clergy Stole - Embroidered Rainbow Cross Design
Fabric is 100% Suraline polyester
60" length
Traditional cut
Dry-clean only!
Colors available: Red, Deep Green, Deep Royal, Purple, White, Khaki
We can add a metal chain to the back of the stole, free of charge. Please let us know if you would like a chain added and if you would like gold or silver color metal.
Our clergy stoles are completely handmade and our designs are one-of-kind, produced by Studio3b. You won't find other stoles quite like ours! Cyndi Wiley and her mom, Carol, design and hand sew each stole. Cyndi created the designs for the stoles by first drawing them on paper and then digitizing the original artwork into embroidery which is then stitched onto each stole. We specialize in servicing open and affirming congregations.
Studio3b is owned and operated by Cyndi Wiley and Jennifer Hall and has been producing award-winning designs since October 2000. Studio3b is based in Des Moines, Iowa. Cyndi’s work has appeared in the March 2003 issue of PRINT magazine, the July 2007 issue of Curve magazine, the February 2005 issue of Esquire magazine, the July 2005 issue of Fortune magazine, the documentary movie The Asphalt Gospel and “The Rachael Ray Show” (episode number 384).
One of the main theological concepts for us, as well as for our denomination, Metropolitan Community Church (MCC) is that of imago Dei, Latin meaning "image of God". It is rooted in Genesis 1:26-28, wherein humanity is created in God's own image. For a people (lesbian, gay, transgendered, bisexual, intersexed, queer, etc) who are often considered by some to be ungodly, evil, sinful, less than human, it has been important for MCC and us to embrace the theological tenet that all of humanity is created in God's image and likeness.
There has been and continues to be some debate as to what that image is like – is it physical, or spiritual, or encompassing both and more. "Let us make humankind in our image, according to our likeness" – does this mean that God is both female and male or perhaps a binary construction of gender too limiting. Is God completely without sex (biological, which would mean a physical body), gender (social construction), is God genderless or does God span the whole possibility of gender?
The other aspect around imago Dei and creation is that of humanity being created and all of creation being called very good (Gen 1:31) and the concept of original sin in relation to women.
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Regular Price: $275.00
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